Cloud Discovery on HIAB

^{Last Updated: 2024-07-31}

Purpose

This article describes how to run Cloud Discovery on HIAB.

Introduction

With Cloud Discovery on HIAB, you can run cloud asset enumeration directly from a HIAB appliance by leveraging your AWS or Azure credentials. This feature enables HIAB to query cloud APIs, discover virtual resources like instances and services, and integrate them into your on-premises scanning environment. This approach streamlines asset visibility, reduces network scanning overhead, and consolidates discovery and assessment workflows all within your HIAB infrastructure.

Cloud Discovery help clients discover assets on customer’s cloud provider, such as AWS or Azure. With the newest update, clients can choose a scanner as well.

Run a Normal Cloud Discovery Scan

Prerequisites

Before starting, verify that you have AWS or Azure credentials.

Create Scan Configuration

To perform a Cloud Discovery Scan, a specific configuration is needed.

To set up the asset, a Cloud discovery scan needs to be performed.

1. Go to HIAB Portal > Configuration > Scan configurations.

2. Click the green plus button.

3. Select Cloud discovery.
   

   

   
   

4. Choose credentials and select related required information:

   1. For AWS:

      1. Select an AWS credential.

      2. Select regions.

         

   2. For Azure:

      1. Select an Azure credential.

      2. Select subscriptions.

         

         
         

5. Choose Scanner:

Run Scan

Check the checkbox on the left of the configuration. Then click Scan Now icon in action bar.

Reading the Result

To read the result of the scan, go to Scans screen, click on a specific scan you want to read the result.

If a scan has produced errors, the details are displayed in the Status tab.

If the scan is successful, the success status is displayed with some asset identifiers.